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Prize, The: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power; Our Plan

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Based on Daniel Yergin's bestselling book on the history of oil, this series tells the history of oil, starting in the 1850s with the first oil well in Titusville, PA, and continuing through the Gulf War and into the future, speculating on the role oil will play in our society in the next century. Donald Sutherland narrates.
Series release date: 1993

Program Description

After oil is discovered in Pennsylvania, John D. Rockefeller created the world's biggest empire only to see it dismantled, thanks to a series of muckraking articles by Ida Tarbell, America's first great women journalist.